Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (SM-N950F) - SIM-Free Smartphone - 64GB - Midnight Black

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Over the S8 Plus, the Note 8 also benefits power users with 6GB or RAM and a superior dual-lens camera, both features passed on to the S9 Plus.

Among other things, handwriting and doodles can also be converted to GIFs and emoji should you so desire, and you can now hover the S Pen over any text or sentence to translate it, or use it for currency conversions.It’s impossible for us to compare it to the Note 7’s S Pen without one to hand, but in use we can say it feels smooth and accurate, with no lag, friction or other annoyances. Some people will appreciate the addition of the feature, though we can’t say it’s something we would use – they just don’t work as seamlessly as they do on Snapchat. Though it features Gorilla Glass 5 protection front and back, which is Corning’s toughest yet, it is not infallible. It's a multimedia powerhouse visually, but its bottom-firing speaker still had us cupping the bottom of the phone to get better audio. We were impressed with not only how loud the Note 8’s speaker could go, but also how little it was distorted at maximum volume.

This feature is great for letting you see the time, date and whether you have any notifications at a glance, potentially saving battery life as you won’t need to wake the display. After 3 days I had no tracking details, so I contacted via online message it took till the next day for them to respond. The Camera app is therefore a little different to what you get on the Galaxy S8, now showing options for Bixby Vision, Live Focus and Stickers directly below the composition window. The Galaxy Note 8 release date was Friday, September 15 2017 in the US and UK, while Australia got the new phone on September 22. With the screen active popping out the stylus will launch Screen Memo, which can now support up to 100 pages.This is the reason you benefit from a minimum 1-year warranty with the purchase of a refurbished device at Back Market. All the usual Samsung features are present, including: Smart Stay, which keeps the screen switched on while you’re looking at it; One-handed mode, which reduces the size of the display to make use in one hand easier; fingerprint sensor gestures; the ability to quick launch the camera with a double-tap of the home button; Smart capture, which offers additional options such as crop and extended capture after taking a screenshot; Easy mode; and Dual Messenger, which lets you use two accounts on apps such as Facebook. Under the hood is an octa-core processor paired with 6GB of RAM, which makes it a very powerful handset indeed, ideal for multi-tasking and heavy use. The buttons, ports and sensors are all in the same places, though of course on the bottom right corner of the Note 8 there’s also the S Pen stylus, which given a little tap pops out just enough to make it accessible but not enough you might easily lose it. Samsung’s new Note flagship traditionally arrives with enough power to blow all other contenders out the water.

Samsung’s Note 7 was a gorgeous handset, but the Note 8 is in a different league with its Infinity Display. The Note 8 is possibly the classiest-looking phone we’ve ever clapped eyes on, and our Midnight Black review sample is stunning. This is likely down to its inclusion of 6GB of LPDDR4 RAM, because in other respects performance is very much on par with the 4GB RAM Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. Samsung says the new S-Pen – which is also water- and dust-resistant – is more pressure-sensitive and has a finer tip than older versions.

Both are 10nm chips, which promise large performance and efficiency gains over last year’s 14nm chips – as much as a 30 percent increase in efficiency, 27 percent increase in performance, and 40 percent decrease in power consumption. In the Galaxy S8, Samsung’s own chip proved to be a smidge quicker than Qualcomm’s, and I’d expect that to hold here too. Menus are easy to navigate and it includes several new features, such as app pairing, which enables you to launch 2 different apps at once. QHD+ display, the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor (or Samsung’s own Exynos 8895, depending on region), 6GB of RAM and 64GB of expandable storage. The Galaxy Note 8 doubles down on that, delivering everything previous Note phones have – and even upping the ante.

The latter takes a little getting used to, but you can always wake up the phone using the power button (don’t get it confused with the dedicated Bixby button, as we often did) or popping out the S Pen stylus. We had feared Bixby would be an unnecessary extra feature, given that the Note 8 also supports the Google Assistant, but it is arguably easier to invoke with the press of a dedicated button rather than having to say “Okay Google. It isn’t quite as good as the wide-angle lens next to it, but it’s a significant improvement over the OnePlus 5’s telephoto snapper, which tended to produce inconsistent, irregularly detailed shots in lower light. On either side the panel curves right round to the frame edge, leaving only a minimal bezel top and bottom in which to house the selfie camera, speaker and various sensors.lets the phone pair with multiple headsets at once, or headsets and speakers, while the standard headphone jack accepts wired headsets. If Samsung’s previous launches were anything to go by, I certainly didn’t expect to see battery life cut. The extra tenth of an inch of screen is insignificant and doesn’t matter, but Note fans adore the S Pen stylus functionality and its more square shape. It’s impressive-looking, but also big and heavy – 9mm taller than any previous Note phone, and 195g.